The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries - Hardcover

Simpson, James

 
9780859912877: The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Parisian Libraries

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The Parisian manuscript collections checked for the compilation of this handlist are the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Bibliotheque Mazarine and the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. They contain a miscellaneous but interesting set of Middle English prose texts: there is the Middle English version of Guy de Chauliac's Cyrurgie; a Brut; four miscellanies of religious matter, including a Pore Caitif and a Lay Folks' Catechism, as well as texts by Rolle and Hilton. There is also Julian of Norwich's Showings, and the polemical Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards.

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James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.

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ISBN 10:  1843841509 ISBN 13:  9781843841500
Verlag: D.S.Brewer, 2007
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